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Today’s total is 3,174 with only 36 in prison. The daily blips (such as yesterday’s) appear to coincide with reports of new clusters inside factories when every worker gets tested. Given that all positive cases are sent to hospital it’s no surprise to read that Bangkok is running out of hospital beds.
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Back up to almost 4,000 today - 3,879 plus 229 prisoners.
Phuket recorded 2; it needs to exceed 70 in 7 days to threaten the Sandbox project.
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StevieWonders
Back up to almost 4,000 today .
With the UK “Opening” being postponed for a month (at least) following rapidly rising figures ....11,000+ on Tuesday and 16,000+ on Wednesday...I can’t see many tourists arriving from the UK.
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One reason (of many) why the COVID statistics are unreliable:
Multiple hospitals in the Bangkok area have stopped doing PCR swab tests for Covid-19. Their rationale is that if some test comes back positive, there won’t be beds for the patients. Other hospitals have “scaled down” the swab tests because their staff is too busy, says Dr Suppachok Kirdlarp.
Dr Thiravat Hemachudha, head of the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre, says that Chulalongkorn Hospital has stopped doing Covid swab tests for 4 days starting today. Dr Thiravat cites the lack of beds for potentially infected people.
https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/m...suficient-beds
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Today’s case number is 3,644 cases with 162 from prisons.
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More stories emerge on Bangkok’s shortage of hospital beds - https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2138707
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4,161 cases today with 72 from prisons.
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StevieWonders
4,161 cases today with 72 from prisons.
So they've slowed testing, and cases are still going up? That's not good.
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Today's general population figure is 3.950 with a further 45 in prison. Given that some hospitals are no longer testing as they have no beds available for those whose result is positive, these figures are even less reliable. Those beyond the pale have difficulties in getting tested and vaccinated -
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...ants-need-help
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A bad number today - a 25% jump in 24 hours - 5,406 cases with only 9 from prisons.
Why anyone in the hospitality sector - yes, Silom 4, I mean you - could imagine that with even last week’s worsening figures that booze would be allowed suggests a loose connection with reality. Only a week or so ago the government had said there would be no booze because in their view it encouraged relaxed behaviour and breaking of social distancing behaviour.
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5406 today. Glad I left when this started.
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gerefan2
5406 today. Glad I left when this started.
Left and returned to UK where the 7-day average is about 14,000 rising to 18,000 on Saturday?
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Sen Yai
Left and returned to UK where the 7-day average is about 14,000 rising to 18,000 on Saturday?
Smugness is its own reward.
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As an indication of how the daily statistics jump around, Bangkok represented 35% of cases reported Sunday but only 31% of cases reported today whereas second-ranked province today (Tak in the northwest) reported 8% of total cases but wasn't in the Top Ten yesterday.
The only other significant province reporting is Chonburi which almost doubled its percentage of total cases, from 4% yesterday to 7% today. It's also a 250% jump in total cases - from 155 cases to 390. Other provinces around that 5% mark were steady.
For those who are hoping, praying and ultimately gloating (for) when the Phuket Sandbox fails, the authorities there reported 4 new cases on Saturday and 1 new case yesterday. The case load needs to average 10 per day for a 7-day period for alarm bells to ring.
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Sen Yai
Left and returned to UK where the 7-day average is about 14,000 rising to 18,000 on Saturday?
As I said I left when this started, in April.
The UK infection rate in April had dropped from 70,000 per day to 2000 per day. The death rate had reduced from about 1700 per day to less than 150.
In addition I have now had my 2 AstaZeneca jabs.
I’m alright Jack .. sorry Sen Yai.
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Here's a graph of cases and deaths in the UK. Death rate moved by 2 weeks on the horizontal axis, for easy comparison & to reflect the lag.
The death rate is increasing slightly, but not enough to show up on the graph. The graph ought to be on a log scale. Note the difference to September.
Currently, about 93% of over 50s have been vaccinated.
Over half the current deaths are amongst the 7% of over 50s who have not been vaccinated. ie There are more deaths among the 7% than the 93%. That's what the anti-vaxxers get for exercising their freedom of choice.
Also, the daily deaths are at a very low level. Far exceeded by other causes, like heart problems. We do not shut the country down for flu and it will shortly be at the stage where we will not be shutting the country down for covid.
Most of the cases in the UK are amongst the younger age groups, but these are currently in the process of being vaccinated, which is expected to fix the problem.
It seems to me that Thailand might not have adjusted it's restrictions up sufficiently to prevent the spread of the variants currently in the country. After all, restrictions appear to be less onerous than the kind of restrictions seen in Europe over the winter.
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Today’s figure net of prisons is 4,652
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The UK infection rate in April had dropped from 70,000 per day to 2000 per day. The death rate had reduced from about 1700 per day to less than 150.
You’re evidently a “fair weather friend”. Cold weather in Blighty? Run away to Thailand. COVID in Thailand? Run back to Blighty.
I would say “no bottom” but that might get some of our members too excited.
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Today’s figures are almost the same as yesterday’s - 4,786 with 127 in prisons
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"You’re evidently a “fair weather friend”. Cold weather in Blighty? Run away to Thailand. COVID in Thailand? Run back to Blighty."
At last you finally get it. Only 7 months. Glass of bubbly for mrgiggles, sorry I mean steviewonders.
And you've made loads of errors in your recent hydra whine if you care to look.
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arsenal
"You’re evidently a “fair weather friend”. Cold weather in Blighty? Run away to Thailand. COVID in Thailand? Run back to Blighty."
At last you finally get it. Only 7 months. Glass of bubbly for mrgiggles, sorry I mean steviewonders.
And you've made loads of errors in your recent hydra whine if you care to look.
Why look? The owner of the board doesn’t care why should anyone else! Why not create some of your own…for example: “Oh no Nice Boys no more”….”Moto 2 Bang Saray” ….. farang in China perhaps”…etc. etc.
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Another big jump today - 5,533 cases including 44 from prisons
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StevieWonders
Another big jump today - 5,533 cases including 44 from prisons
The progression is now getting scary for Thailand, and for anyone vulnerable there who hasn't been vaccinated.
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Brad the Impala
The progression is now getting scary for Thailand, and for anyone vulnerable there who hasn't been vaccinated.
The only people I know of here that have been vaccinated are hospital staffs and that has been with the Chinese vaccine Sinovac.
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And Phuket is opening up ????? Kinda silly if I may say so...
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Blueskytoday
And Phuket is opening up ????? Kinda silly if I may say so...
1 Phuket is only letting in tourists with vaccinations and PCR tests.
2 Thailand already has covid and has the "delta" variant, so little is to be gained by closing the borders. Would be shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
3 Apparently 95% of the Phuket GDP is from tourism normally. So there is a lot of incentive to open up for tourism and very little to be lost.
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Today 5,880 net of 207 prisoners taking the total to over 6,000
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Some stats:
- May's monthly average was 2,208 vs. June's 2,970 - an increase of 34%
- The weekly average jumped 13% in two days, and 42% in a week
- The fortnightly average jumped 11% in two days, and 35% in a week
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Can we say it's trending upwards now?
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cdnmatt
Can we say it's trending upwards now?
Sorry to say that's correct.
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A slightly higher figure today - 6,230 including 294 prisoners - a net figure including travellers of 5,936
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There were 5,916 cases reported including 39 in prisons.
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There were 6,166 cases (84 cases from prisons) = 6082
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I like how the number in prisons dropped off a cliff so suddenly.
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cdnmatt
I like how the number in prisons dropped off a cliff so suddenly.
What sort of axis are you using for your graph and what criteria are you using to determine what accuracy the figures represent and whether some prisons are not reporting every day? Here are the prisoner figures for the past 5 days:
June 30 - 127
July 1 - 44
July 2 - 207
July 3 - 294
July 4 - 39
July 5 - 84
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The daily figures are an improvement but as I’ve said before one swallow doesn’t make a boyfriend and Thai statistics fall into the category of “rubbery”: 5,420 including 37 prisoners
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Hold the front page! The Thai government according to the reliable Thai New Reports Twitter account is making testing FREE today at a number of sites - but only for the first 900 lucky customers.
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Yesterday's numbers were an aberration - today there are 6,519 cases including 55 cases from prisons. I've noticed that the more detailed daily figures appear to reflect some reporting areas aggregate their figures for a number of days.
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Anybody falling asleep yet?
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Dodger
Anybody falling asleep yet?
Nope, and since Stevie is dropping the ball today, 6,519 cases and 54 deaths today. No idea how many are prisoners as the scraper I have just picks up totals.
Not bored at all, and still waiting for the numbers to jump to ~20k per-day, which I'm guessing they will in the near future. At which point we will probably have to listen to you complain because you didn't get out of dodge and back to the US for a vaccination when you could.